INFO 6742

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INFO 6742
Natural Language Processing and Social Interaction

Course information provided by the 2023-2024 Catalog.

More and more of life is now manifested online, and many of the digital traces that are left by human activity are increasingly recorded in natural-language format. This research-oriented course examines the opportunities for natural language processing to contribute to the analysis and facilitation of socially embedded processes. Possible topics include sentiment analysis, learning social-network structure, analysis of text in political or legal domains, review aggregation systems, analysis of online conversations, and text categorization with respect to psychological categories.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: CS 2110 or equivalent programming experience, a course in artificial intelligence or any relevant subfield (e.g., NLP, information retrieval, machine learning).

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CS 6742

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 19473 INFO 6742   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    This course is restricted to INFO graduate students only.